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It's still 100% about how to benefit users for most teams

I’m sorry, but pages that pull in several Mb of ads and tracking to show a couple of Kb of text the user actually wants are by no means constructed for the benefit of the user, any more than the line is baited for the benefit of the fish.

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Pulling in those megabytes of ads didnt increase developer satisfaction either. Those are marketing decisions, not technical decisions wether to render serverside or clientside

The developer gets paid partly by the adverts. Getting paid is integral to my job satisfaction...

I actually don't work on any ad supported products. That improves my job satisfaction even more.

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